Early 2020s

• Corpo AV crashes, causing nano-tech plague outside Night City, killing for 2 weeks then stopping.
• Nomads are financed by Storm Tech to try to revitalize Chicago
• Corpo War over the Seas starts
• DataKrash is activated
• 80% of the NET goes down fast
• Arasaka starts building isolated NET for itself (Arasaka Towers)
• Arasaka and Militech fight it out in public, combat in many major cities globally
• Arasaka tears down the Chicago Project, with virus bombs
• To stop the Corpo Wars, some folks drop moon rocks on the planet in key fighting locations, mass death. US and Japan have a new joint govt.
• Attempt to destroy the Arasaka private NET (Silverhand), Nuke goes off and destroys the tower and most of Central Night City with it. .5 M dead, .25 more from the fall out.
• Time of the RED starts - sky turns red from the nuke fallout and space debris all over the world, until it fades to bright red during sunrise/sunset.
• Corpo War ends
• NET is down.
• Japan Govt almost breaks down by repudiating Arasaka, which becomes Japan-Only for 10 years. EU is back in action.